Cricket is a
bat-and-ball game that is played between two
teams of eleven players on a
field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre)
pitch with a
wicket at each end, each comprising two
bails balanced on three
stumps. Two players from the
batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket holding
bats, with one player from the
fielding team (the bowler)
bowling the
ball towards the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one
run for each exchange. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches or crosses the
boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled
illegally.
Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900 – 18 June 1958) was an English
cricketer who played 22
Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches between 1931 and 1934. A right-handed
batsman, he is best known for captaining the English team during their successful
1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. During that series, England employed "
Bodyline" tactics against the Australian batsmen, headed by
Donald Bradman, wherein bowlers pitched the ball short on the line of
leg stump to rise towards the bodies of the batsmen in a manner that some contemporary players and critics viewed as intimidatory and physically dangerous. As captain, Jardine was the person responsible for the implementation of Bodyline.
A controversial figure among cricketers, partially for what was perceived by some to be an arrogant and patrician manner, he was well known for his dislike of Australian players and crowds, and thus was unpopular in Australia, especially so after the Bodyline tour. However, many who played under his leadership regarded him as an excellent and dedicated captain. He was also famous in cricket circles for wearing a multi-coloured
Harlequin cap. (Full article...)
Sachin Tendulkar has scored more centuries in
Test cricket than any other player. Sachin Tendulkar is a retired
Indian cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, he is the most prolific run-scorer in international cricket. Tendulkar has scored the highest number of
centuries (100 or more
runs) in
Test matches and
One Day International (ODI) matches organised by the
International Cricket Council. His total of 51 centuries in Test matches is a world record for highest number of centuries by a batsman and his 49 centuries in ODI matches are the second highest number of centuries after Virat Kohli. He became the first and only cricketer to score 100 international centuries when he made 114 against
Bangladesh in March 2012.
After making his Test debut in 1989, Tendulkar achieved his first century against
England at
Old Trafford,
Manchester in 1990; he made 119
not out. In Test matches, Tendulkar has scored centuries against all the
Test cricket playing nations, and is the second batsman to score 150 against each of them. He has scored a century in at least one cricket ground of all Test cricket playing nations, except
Zimbabwe. In October 2010, Tendulkar went past
Brian Lara's record of 19 scores of 150 or more by hitting his 20th against Australia in Bangalore. He made his highest score in 2004, when he made 248 not out against Bangladesh at the
Bangabandhu National Stadium,
Dhaka. Tendulkar has scored six double centuries and remained unbeaten on 15 occasions. His centuries have come in 30 different
cricket grounds, with 27 of them being scored in venues outside India. Tendulkar has been dismissed nine times between scores of 90 and 99. (Full article...)
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Former Australian captain, Richie Benaud.
In
cricket, a
five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of December 2015 only 45 bowlers have taken at least 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers.
Richie Benaud, a
leg spinner and former
captain of the
Australia cricket team, played 63
Tests for his country between 1952 and 1964. He took 248 wickets at an
average of 27.03, including 16 five-wicket hauls. The cricket almanack Wisden named him
one of their Cricketers of the Year in 1962. He was inducted into the
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2007, and into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the inaugural members in January 2009.
Leo McKinstry, a cricket writer, in 1998 described Benaud as "one of cricket's greatest legends" and "one of the great all-rounders", and further noted him being the first to take 200 wickets and make 2,000
runs in Tests.
Benaud made his Test debut in January 1952 against the
West Indies at the
Sydney Cricket Ground, a match Australia won by 202 runs. His first Test five-wicket haul came in the first match of the
1956–57 series against
India at the
Corporation Stadium. He took 7 wickets for 72 runs in the first innings of the match, his best
bowling figures for an innings. Benaud took his solitary pair of five-wicket hauls in the third Test of the series at the
Eden Gardens. He accumulated 11 wickets for 105 runs in the match, his career-best performance in Test cricket. Benaud claimed his 16 five-wicket hauls against five different opponents, and Australia never lost any of the games on such instances. He was most successful against India and
South Africa, taking 5 five-wicket hauls against each side. Benaud took his five-wicket hauls at 12
cricket grounds, including 11 at venues outside Australia. As of August 2014, he is thirty-first among all-time combined five-wicket haul takers. (Full article...)
India played their first
Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) match against England in the
1978 World Cup, which they hosted. They finished at the bottom of the table as they lost the remaining two games of the group stage. In the
1982 World Cup, they won their first ever WODI match when they beat the
International XI by 79
runs at
McLean Park,
Napier. India's first overseas WODI series win came at the
1994–95 New Zealand Women's Centenary Tournament. They won the WODI series during their tour 1999 of England. They were the runner-up at the
2005 and the
2017World Cup tournaments. , they have played 301 WODIs against twelve different opponents, and have the fourth highest number of victories (164) for any team in the format; They have recorded 81 wins and have been the fifth most successful team in the T20 format. Since their first
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) against England in August 2006, India have played 151 matches. They have been most successful against
Bangladesh with eleven wins against them. They were among the semi-finalists in the
2009 and
2010ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournaments. (Full article...)
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Kumar Sangakkara was the captain of the Deccan Chargers during their last season.
The
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (often abbreviated as DC) was a franchise
cricket team based in
Hyderabad,
Telangana, that competed in the
Indian Premier League (IPL) from 2008 to 2012. The team was owned by
Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited who won the bid for the Hyderabad franchise at US$107 million.
VVS Laxman and
Robin Singh were appointed as the
captain and the coach for their
first season in 2008. After finishing last in that season, the DC sacked their coach and removed their captain and replaced them with
Darren Lehmann and
Adam Gilchrist under whom they won their only IPL title in 2009, when they defeated the
Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in the
final. They reached the semi-finals again in 2010 but failed to reach past the group stages before the team was folded in 2012. They qualified for the
Champions League Twenty20 only once, for the
2009 season, but failed to advance past the group stage. Lehmann remained as the coach for the DC but they were forced to replace Gilchrist with
Kumar Sangakkara in
2011 after they lost former to the
Kings XI Punjab in the
2011 auction. Sangakkara remained as the captain until the middle of the
2012 season before he was replaced by
Cameron White following the poor performances. Sangakkara later returned as captain as the move did not yield the desired results for the Deccan Chargers.
On 15 September 2012, the Deccan Chargers' IPL contract was terminated by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which was concerned about overdue payments to the players. The Hyderabad franchise was later acquired by the
Sun TV Network for ₹85.05
crore (US$10 million) per year in a bid which also retained 20 players. (Full article...)
Abdul Qadir was a
Pakistanicricketer who took 17
five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and fewer than 50 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm
leg spin bowler who represented his country between 1977 and 1994,
Yahoo! Cricket wrote that Abdul Qadir "was a master of the
leg-spin" and "mastered the
googlies, the
flippers, the
leg-breaks and the
topspins."
Abdul Qadir made his
Test debut in 1977 against
England at the
Gaddafi Stadium,
Lahore. His first Test five-wicket haul came the following year against the same team in a match at the
Niaz Stadium,
Hyderabad. In March 1984 against the English at the Gaddafi Stadium, he took a five-wicket haul in both innings of a Test match for the first time. He repeated this feat only once more in his career, at the
National Stadium, Karachi, against the same team, in December 1987. His career-best figures for an innings were 9 wickets for 56
runs against England at the Gaddafi Stadium, in November 1987. In Tests, Qadir was most successful against the English taking eight of his five-wicket hauls against them. He took ten or more wickets in a match on five occasions. Qadir claimed 15 five-wicket hauls in his Test career, and Pakistan never lost any of the games on such instances. (Full article...)
Cook made his Test debut against
India at the
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground,
Nagpur in 2006. He became the sixteenth English cricketer to
score a century on Test debut when he scored 104 in the second innings. His score of 294, against the same team at the
Edgbaston Cricket Ground,
Birmingham, in 2011, is the sixth highest total by an English batsman in Test cricket. Cook has scored Test centuries at 24
cricket grounds, including 17 outside England. He has scored centuries against all eight Test opponents the team has played and scored the most centuries (seven) against India. In May 2015, Cook became England's all-time leading run scorer in Tests, when he went past
Graham Gooch's tally of 8900 runs. , he ranks equal tenth among players with most Test centuries, and top of the equivalent list for England. His 38 centuries across
all formats is the highest by an English cricketer. (Full article...)
To date, 42 players have represented the United States in ODI matches. (Full article...)
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Trent Bridge hosted Nottinghamshire's debut home match in first-class cricket and remains the club's primary ground. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English
County Championship, representing the
historic county of
Nottinghamshire, and also competes in major competitions in other formats of the game. Although there are records of a team competing as Nottinghamshire at an earlier date, the current club was established in 1841 and has competed in
first-class cricket from 1841,
List A cricket from 1963 and
Twenty20 cricket from 2003.[A] Unlike most professional sports, in which a team usually has a single fixed home ground, county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within or close to the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" away from the club's main headquarters has diminished since the 1980s. The Nottinghamshire team have played first class, List A, or Twenty20 matches at nine different grounds, although of these only one has hosted Twenty20 games.
The current Nottinghamshire club's debut home game in first-class cricket was played at
Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The ground had been laid out in the 1830s by
William Clarke, captain of the
All-England Eleven, who was married to the landlady of the
Trent Bridge Inn. Trent Bridge also played host to the club's first home fixtures in the other formats of the game; in List A cricket in 1965 against
Wiltshire; and in Twenty20 cricket against
Lancashire in 2003. The ground has also been used for matches not including Nottinghamshire, including extensively by
England. (Full article...)
The only bowler to have taken three ODI hat-tricks is
Sri Lanka'sLasith Malinga. Five other bowlers— Pakistan's
Wasim Akram and
Saqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lanka's
Chaminda Vaas, New Zealand's
Trent Boult and India's
Kuldeep Yadav—have taken two hat-tricks in the format. Hat-tricks are dominated by
spinners. Vaas is the first and only bowler to claim a hat-trick on the first three balls of any form of international cricket; he achieved the feat against Bangladesh during the
2003 World Cup. Malinga is the only player to claim four wickets in consecutive balls; he achieved the feat against South Africa in the
2007 World Cup. Four players have taken a hat-trick on their ODI debuts: Bangladesh's
Taijul Islam against Zimbabwe in 2014, South Africa's
Kagiso Rabada against Bangladesh in 2015, Sri Lanka's
Wanindu Hasaranga against Zimbabwe in 2017, and Sri Lanka's
Shehan Madushanka against Bangladesh in 2018. India's Chetan Sharma was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in a
World Cup match. Eleven hat-tricks have been taken in World Cup matches. (Full article...)
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In
cricket, a
batsman reaches a triple century if they score 300 or more
runs in a single
innings. The
Ranji Trophy is the premier
first-class cricket championship played in India. Conducted by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India, it was founded in 1934 as "The Cricket Championship of India". , a triple century has been scored on 46 occasions by 41 different batsmen in the Ranji Trophy.
Adam Gilchrist was a captain of KXIP in 2011–2013. Punjab Kings, formerly called
Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), is a franchise
cricket team based in
Mohali,
Punjab in India, and is one of the teams participating in the
Indian Premier League (IPL). KXIP was founded in 2008. The franchise is owned by actress
Preity Zinta,
Ness Wadia of
Bombay Dyeing, Karan Paul of the Apeejay Surendera Group and Mohit Burman of
Dabur. The group paid
US$76 million to acquire the franchise. It is owned by a consortium, along with the
Rajasthan Royals. Along with the Rajasthan Royals, KXIP's franchise agreement was terminated by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in October 2010, because the teams had been signed by people who were not members of the consortium which owned the team. A petition of arbitration (appeal) was filed to the Bombay High Court in November 2010, challenging the decision, which was accepted a month later.
KXIP played their first
Twenty20 match in 2008 during the
first season of the IPL, where they reached the semi-final. They lost the 2008 semi-final to
Chennai Super Kings on 31 May 2008, after playing fourteen matches in the league, winning ten matches and losing four. With ten international cricketers in 2009, they finished fifth in the
second season of the IPL, winning and losing seven matches. KXIP finished in eighth place in the
third IPL season, losing eleven of their fourteen matches. KXIP improved in the
fourth season of the IPL, finishing in fifth place with seven losses and victories. In the IPL's
fifth season in 2012, the team played sixteen matches, winning eight and losing nine to finish in sixth position. In the
2013 season, they won eight matches out of sixteen, and lost the other eight. In the
2014 season, they won 11 of 14 matches. In the
2015 season, KXIP won three of fourteen matches and finished in last position. In the IPL's
ninth season, KXIP won four of fourteen matches and finished in last position. In the
2017 season, KXIP won seven of fourteen matches to finish in fifth position. (Full article...)
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Imran Khan, a retired
Pakistanicricketer and former
Prime Minister of Pakistan, took 24
five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of 2014 fewer than 45 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A
right-armfast bowler who represented his country between 1971 and 1992, Khan was described by the
BBC as "one of the finest fast bowlers cricket has ever seen", while
ESPNcricinfo declared him as "the greatest cricketer to emerge from Pakistan, and arguably the world's second-best allrounder after
Garry Sobers". In 1983 he was named as one of the five
Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and was inducted into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in January 2009.
Khan made his
Test debut in 1971 against
England at
Edgbaston Cricket Ground. His first Test five-wicket haul came in 1977 against
Australia in a match at
Melbourne Cricket Ground which Pakistan lost. In the same year, he took his first pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against Australia at the
Sydney Cricket Ground. By the end of his career, he had claimed five-wickets hauls in both innings of a match on three occasions. His career-best figures for an innings were 8 wickets for 58 runs against
Sri Lanka at
Gaddafi Stadium, in March 1982. He took ten or more wickets in a match on six occasions. (Full article...)
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The Walter Lawrence Trophy is an annual award made to the player who has scored the fastest
century in English domestic
county cricket that season, in terms of
balls received (not counting
wides). Hundreds are considered by a panel of experts which, as of 2020, comprise
Michael Atherton,
David Gower,
Simon Hughes and
John Barclay. Those which are adjudged to have been made against
declaration bowling are not eligible for the award, although this restriction was not always observed in former years. , the recipient of the Walter Lawrence Trophy is also presented with a cheque for £2,500.
The trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a builder and cricket enthusiast from
Hertfordshire, the first recipient being
Frank Woolley. At this stage in its history, the criterion was the time taken to score a hundred rather than the number of balls faced. The award was made every season up to and including 1939 when Lawrence died. When first class cricket resumed in 1945 after the Second World War, Lawrence's son Guy left the presentation of the Trophy in abeyance. It was finally re-instated by Guy's son-in-law, Brian Thornton for the 1966 season. The recipient was then the player who had scored the fastest
EnglandTest century in terms of balls faced, at home or away, in the calendar year. The 1970 award was made to
Geoffrey Boycott for "the most meritorious innings of the England v The
Rest of the World series", but in 1971 the original version of the award was restored. Since 1985, the trophy has been decided in terms of balls faced rather than minutes spent at the
crease. (Full article...)
AB de Villiers is a former South African
cricketer who captained the
national team between 2012 and 2017. A right-handed batsman, he scored 47
centuries (100 or more
runs in a single
innings)—22 in
Tests and 25 in
ODIs—over his playing career. He reached the top of the
ICC Test batting rankings in March 2012.
De Villiers made his Test debut in December 2004 against
England, scoring 28 and 15. He made his first Test century the following month, scoring 109 in the
drawn fifth Test at
Centurion. His first double-century came in April 2008 against
India when he scored 217
not out in a
man-of-the-match performance in
Ahmedabad. He has scored 22 Test centuries and holds the record for the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman, with 278
not out against
Pakistan. De Villiers has the fourth-highest number of centuries in Tests for South Africa. (Full article...)
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Former captain
Alastair Cook, pictured in 2016, holds several England Test cricket records. Test cricket is the oldest form of
cricket played at
international level. A Test match is scheduled to take place over a period of five days, and is played by teams representing
full member nations of the
International Cricket Council (ICC).
England was a founding member of the ICC, having played the
first Test match against
Australia in
March 1877 at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground. , they have played more Test matches than any other team, and of their 1071 games, have won 392, drawn 355 and lost 324. With 36.6 per cent of matches won, this makes England the third most successful team in the history of Test cricket, behind Australia on 47.8 per cent and
South Africa on 38.36 per cent.
Opening batsman and former
captainAlastair Cook holds several England Test cricket records. Playing between 2006 and 2018, he scored 12,472
runs, making him the first England player to
score 10,000 Test runs. He scored a record 57 half-centuries and 33
centuries. As a
slip fielder, Cook has also taken the most
catches for England with 175 and holds the England record for the most catches taken in a Test series with 13. Cook also holds the Test record for the most consecutive matches played with 159. (Full article...)
1971 - Controversial fast bowler
Ed Giddins is born.
1981 - England, having followed on 227 runs behind
Australia in the third
AshesTest at
Leeds, subside to 135 for seven wickets in their second innings in the early afternoon, still 92 behind. Then an eighth wicket stand of 117 between
Ian Botham and
Graham Dilley avoids the innings defeat and at close of play England are 351 for nine, with Botham still not out. The next day completes the story.
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Sri Lanka
2000 - Sanath Jayasuriya (pictured) scores 148 off 156 balls on the first day of a Test series against South Africa in
Galle.
Image 3A
wicket consists of three
stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as the
bails. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 4 First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836 (from History of cricket)
Image 5In men's cricket the ball must weigh between 5.5 and 5.75 ounces (155.9 and 163 g) and measure between 8.81 and 9 in (22.4 and 22.9 cm) in circumference. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 6A Game of Cricket at The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park, depiction by unknown artist, c. 1790–1799 (from History of cricket)
Image 7New articles of the game of cricket, 25 February 1774 (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 8Broadhalfpenny Down, the location of the first First Class match in 1772 is still played on today (from History of cricket)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket, and produces team rankings for the various forms of cricket played internationally.
Test cricket is the longest form of cricket, played up to a maximum of five days with two
innings per side.
Matches is the number of matches played in the 12–24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that. See
points calculations for more details.
Cricket is a
bat-and-ball game that is played between two
teams of eleven players on a
field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre)
pitch with a
wicket at each end, each comprising two
bails balanced on three
stumps. Two players from the
batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket holding
bats, with one player from the
fielding team (the bowler)
bowling the
ball towards the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one
run for each exchange. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches or crosses the
boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled
illegally.
Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900 – 18 June 1958) was an English
cricketer who played 22
Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches between 1931 and 1934. A right-handed
batsman, he is best known for captaining the English team during their successful
1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. During that series, England employed "
Bodyline" tactics against the Australian batsmen, headed by
Donald Bradman, wherein bowlers pitched the ball short on the line of
leg stump to rise towards the bodies of the batsmen in a manner that some contemporary players and critics viewed as intimidatory and physically dangerous. As captain, Jardine was the person responsible for the implementation of Bodyline.
A controversial figure among cricketers, partially for what was perceived by some to be an arrogant and patrician manner, he was well known for his dislike of Australian players and crowds, and thus was unpopular in Australia, especially so after the Bodyline tour. However, many who played under his leadership regarded him as an excellent and dedicated captain. He was also famous in cricket circles for wearing a multi-coloured
Harlequin cap. (Full article...)
Sachin Tendulkar has scored more centuries in
Test cricket than any other player. Sachin Tendulkar is a retired
Indian cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, he is the most prolific run-scorer in international cricket. Tendulkar has scored the highest number of
centuries (100 or more
runs) in
Test matches and
One Day International (ODI) matches organised by the
International Cricket Council. His total of 51 centuries in Test matches is a world record for highest number of centuries by a batsman and his 49 centuries in ODI matches are the second highest number of centuries after Virat Kohli. He became the first and only cricketer to score 100 international centuries when he made 114 against
Bangladesh in March 2012.
After making his Test debut in 1989, Tendulkar achieved his first century against
England at
Old Trafford,
Manchester in 1990; he made 119
not out. In Test matches, Tendulkar has scored centuries against all the
Test cricket playing nations, and is the second batsman to score 150 against each of them. He has scored a century in at least one cricket ground of all Test cricket playing nations, except
Zimbabwe. In October 2010, Tendulkar went past
Brian Lara's record of 19 scores of 150 or more by hitting his 20th against Australia in Bangalore. He made his highest score in 2004, when he made 248 not out against Bangladesh at the
Bangabandhu National Stadium,
Dhaka. Tendulkar has scored six double centuries and remained unbeaten on 15 occasions. His centuries have come in 30 different
cricket grounds, with 27 of them being scored in venues outside India. Tendulkar has been dismissed nine times between scores of 90 and 99. (Full article...)
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Former Australian captain, Richie Benaud.
In
cricket, a
five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of December 2015 only 45 bowlers have taken at least 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers.
Richie Benaud, a
leg spinner and former
captain of the
Australia cricket team, played 63
Tests for his country between 1952 and 1964. He took 248 wickets at an
average of 27.03, including 16 five-wicket hauls. The cricket almanack Wisden named him
one of their Cricketers of the Year in 1962. He was inducted into the
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2007, and into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the inaugural members in January 2009.
Leo McKinstry, a cricket writer, in 1998 described Benaud as "one of cricket's greatest legends" and "one of the great all-rounders", and further noted him being the first to take 200 wickets and make 2,000
runs in Tests.
Benaud made his Test debut in January 1952 against the
West Indies at the
Sydney Cricket Ground, a match Australia won by 202 runs. His first Test five-wicket haul came in the first match of the
1956–57 series against
India at the
Corporation Stadium. He took 7 wickets for 72 runs in the first innings of the match, his best
bowling figures for an innings. Benaud took his solitary pair of five-wicket hauls in the third Test of the series at the
Eden Gardens. He accumulated 11 wickets for 105 runs in the match, his career-best performance in Test cricket. Benaud claimed his 16 five-wicket hauls against five different opponents, and Australia never lost any of the games on such instances. He was most successful against India and
South Africa, taking 5 five-wicket hauls against each side. Benaud took his five-wicket hauls at 12
cricket grounds, including 11 at venues outside Australia. As of August 2014, he is thirty-first among all-time combined five-wicket haul takers. (Full article...)
India played their first
Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) match against England in the
1978 World Cup, which they hosted. They finished at the bottom of the table as they lost the remaining two games of the group stage. In the
1982 World Cup, they won their first ever WODI match when they beat the
International XI by 79
runs at
McLean Park,
Napier. India's first overseas WODI series win came at the
1994–95 New Zealand Women's Centenary Tournament. They won the WODI series during their tour 1999 of England. They were the runner-up at the
2005 and the
2017World Cup tournaments. , they have played 301 WODIs against twelve different opponents, and have the fourth highest number of victories (164) for any team in the format; They have recorded 81 wins and have been the fifth most successful team in the T20 format. Since their first
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) against England in August 2006, India have played 151 matches. They have been most successful against
Bangladesh with eleven wins against them. They were among the semi-finalists in the
2009 and
2010ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournaments. (Full article...)
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Kumar Sangakkara was the captain of the Deccan Chargers during their last season.
The
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (often abbreviated as DC) was a franchise
cricket team based in
Hyderabad,
Telangana, that competed in the
Indian Premier League (IPL) from 2008 to 2012. The team was owned by
Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited who won the bid for the Hyderabad franchise at US$107 million.
VVS Laxman and
Robin Singh were appointed as the
captain and the coach for their
first season in 2008. After finishing last in that season, the DC sacked their coach and removed their captain and replaced them with
Darren Lehmann and
Adam Gilchrist under whom they won their only IPL title in 2009, when they defeated the
Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in the
final. They reached the semi-finals again in 2010 but failed to reach past the group stages before the team was folded in 2012. They qualified for the
Champions League Twenty20 only once, for the
2009 season, but failed to advance past the group stage. Lehmann remained as the coach for the DC but they were forced to replace Gilchrist with
Kumar Sangakkara in
2011 after they lost former to the
Kings XI Punjab in the
2011 auction. Sangakkara remained as the captain until the middle of the
2012 season before he was replaced by
Cameron White following the poor performances. Sangakkara later returned as captain as the move did not yield the desired results for the Deccan Chargers.
On 15 September 2012, the Deccan Chargers' IPL contract was terminated by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which was concerned about overdue payments to the players. The Hyderabad franchise was later acquired by the
Sun TV Network for ₹85.05
crore (US$10 million) per year in a bid which also retained 20 players. (Full article...)
Abdul Qadir was a
Pakistanicricketer who took 17
five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and fewer than 50 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm
leg spin bowler who represented his country between 1977 and 1994,
Yahoo! Cricket wrote that Abdul Qadir "was a master of the
leg-spin" and "mastered the
googlies, the
flippers, the
leg-breaks and the
topspins."
Abdul Qadir made his
Test debut in 1977 against
England at the
Gaddafi Stadium,
Lahore. His first Test five-wicket haul came the following year against the same team in a match at the
Niaz Stadium,
Hyderabad. In March 1984 against the English at the Gaddafi Stadium, he took a five-wicket haul in both innings of a Test match for the first time. He repeated this feat only once more in his career, at the
National Stadium, Karachi, against the same team, in December 1987. His career-best figures for an innings were 9 wickets for 56
runs against England at the Gaddafi Stadium, in November 1987. In Tests, Qadir was most successful against the English taking eight of his five-wicket hauls against them. He took ten or more wickets in a match on five occasions. Qadir claimed 15 five-wicket hauls in his Test career, and Pakistan never lost any of the games on such instances. (Full article...)
Cook made his Test debut against
India at the
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground,
Nagpur in 2006. He became the sixteenth English cricketer to
score a century on Test debut when he scored 104 in the second innings. His score of 294, against the same team at the
Edgbaston Cricket Ground,
Birmingham, in 2011, is the sixth highest total by an English batsman in Test cricket. Cook has scored Test centuries at 24
cricket grounds, including 17 outside England. He has scored centuries against all eight Test opponents the team has played and scored the most centuries (seven) against India. In May 2015, Cook became England's all-time leading run scorer in Tests, when he went past
Graham Gooch's tally of 8900 runs. , he ranks equal tenth among players with most Test centuries, and top of the equivalent list for England. His 38 centuries across
all formats is the highest by an English cricketer. (Full article...)
To date, 42 players have represented the United States in ODI matches. (Full article...)
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Trent Bridge hosted Nottinghamshire's debut home match in first-class cricket and remains the club's primary ground. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English
County Championship, representing the
historic county of
Nottinghamshire, and also competes in major competitions in other formats of the game. Although there are records of a team competing as Nottinghamshire at an earlier date, the current club was established in 1841 and has competed in
first-class cricket from 1841,
List A cricket from 1963 and
Twenty20 cricket from 2003.[A] Unlike most professional sports, in which a team usually has a single fixed home ground, county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within or close to the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" away from the club's main headquarters has diminished since the 1980s. The Nottinghamshire team have played first class, List A, or Twenty20 matches at nine different grounds, although of these only one has hosted Twenty20 games.
The current Nottinghamshire club's debut home game in first-class cricket was played at
Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The ground had been laid out in the 1830s by
William Clarke, captain of the
All-England Eleven, who was married to the landlady of the
Trent Bridge Inn. Trent Bridge also played host to the club's first home fixtures in the other formats of the game; in List A cricket in 1965 against
Wiltshire; and in Twenty20 cricket against
Lancashire in 2003. The ground has also been used for matches not including Nottinghamshire, including extensively by
England. (Full article...)
The only bowler to have taken three ODI hat-tricks is
Sri Lanka'sLasith Malinga. Five other bowlers— Pakistan's
Wasim Akram and
Saqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lanka's
Chaminda Vaas, New Zealand's
Trent Boult and India's
Kuldeep Yadav—have taken two hat-tricks in the format. Hat-tricks are dominated by
spinners. Vaas is the first and only bowler to claim a hat-trick on the first three balls of any form of international cricket; he achieved the feat against Bangladesh during the
2003 World Cup. Malinga is the only player to claim four wickets in consecutive balls; he achieved the feat against South Africa in the
2007 World Cup. Four players have taken a hat-trick on their ODI debuts: Bangladesh's
Taijul Islam against Zimbabwe in 2014, South Africa's
Kagiso Rabada against Bangladesh in 2015, Sri Lanka's
Wanindu Hasaranga against Zimbabwe in 2017, and Sri Lanka's
Shehan Madushanka against Bangladesh in 2018. India's Chetan Sharma was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in a
World Cup match. Eleven hat-tricks have been taken in World Cup matches. (Full article...)
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In
cricket, a
batsman reaches a triple century if they score 300 or more
runs in a single
innings. The
Ranji Trophy is the premier
first-class cricket championship played in India. Conducted by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India, it was founded in 1934 as "The Cricket Championship of India". , a triple century has been scored on 46 occasions by 41 different batsmen in the Ranji Trophy.
Adam Gilchrist was a captain of KXIP in 2011–2013. Punjab Kings, formerly called
Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), is a franchise
cricket team based in
Mohali,
Punjab in India, and is one of the teams participating in the
Indian Premier League (IPL). KXIP was founded in 2008. The franchise is owned by actress
Preity Zinta,
Ness Wadia of
Bombay Dyeing, Karan Paul of the Apeejay Surendera Group and Mohit Burman of
Dabur. The group paid
US$76 million to acquire the franchise. It is owned by a consortium, along with the
Rajasthan Royals. Along with the Rajasthan Royals, KXIP's franchise agreement was terminated by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in October 2010, because the teams had been signed by people who were not members of the consortium which owned the team. A petition of arbitration (appeal) was filed to the Bombay High Court in November 2010, challenging the decision, which was accepted a month later.
KXIP played their first
Twenty20 match in 2008 during the
first season of the IPL, where they reached the semi-final. They lost the 2008 semi-final to
Chennai Super Kings on 31 May 2008, after playing fourteen matches in the league, winning ten matches and losing four. With ten international cricketers in 2009, they finished fifth in the
second season of the IPL, winning and losing seven matches. KXIP finished in eighth place in the
third IPL season, losing eleven of their fourteen matches. KXIP improved in the
fourth season of the IPL, finishing in fifth place with seven losses and victories. In the IPL's
fifth season in 2012, the team played sixteen matches, winning eight and losing nine to finish in sixth position. In the
2013 season, they won eight matches out of sixteen, and lost the other eight. In the
2014 season, they won 11 of 14 matches. In the
2015 season, KXIP won three of fourteen matches and finished in last position. In the IPL's
ninth season, KXIP won four of fourteen matches and finished in last position. In the
2017 season, KXIP won seven of fourteen matches to finish in fifth position. (Full article...)
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Imran Khan, a retired
Pakistanicricketer and former
Prime Minister of Pakistan, took 24
five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of 2014 fewer than 45 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A
right-armfast bowler who represented his country between 1971 and 1992, Khan was described by the
BBC as "one of the finest fast bowlers cricket has ever seen", while
ESPNcricinfo declared him as "the greatest cricketer to emerge from Pakistan, and arguably the world's second-best allrounder after
Garry Sobers". In 1983 he was named as one of the five
Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and was inducted into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in January 2009.
Khan made his
Test debut in 1971 against
England at
Edgbaston Cricket Ground. His first Test five-wicket haul came in 1977 against
Australia in a match at
Melbourne Cricket Ground which Pakistan lost. In the same year, he took his first pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against Australia at the
Sydney Cricket Ground. By the end of his career, he had claimed five-wickets hauls in both innings of a match on three occasions. His career-best figures for an innings were 8 wickets for 58 runs against
Sri Lanka at
Gaddafi Stadium, in March 1982. He took ten or more wickets in a match on six occasions. (Full article...)
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The Walter Lawrence Trophy is an annual award made to the player who has scored the fastest
century in English domestic
county cricket that season, in terms of
balls received (not counting
wides). Hundreds are considered by a panel of experts which, as of 2020, comprise
Michael Atherton,
David Gower,
Simon Hughes and
John Barclay. Those which are adjudged to have been made against
declaration bowling are not eligible for the award, although this restriction was not always observed in former years. , the recipient of the Walter Lawrence Trophy is also presented with a cheque for £2,500.
The trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a builder and cricket enthusiast from
Hertfordshire, the first recipient being
Frank Woolley. At this stage in its history, the criterion was the time taken to score a hundred rather than the number of balls faced. The award was made every season up to and including 1939 when Lawrence died. When first class cricket resumed in 1945 after the Second World War, Lawrence's son Guy left the presentation of the Trophy in abeyance. It was finally re-instated by Guy's son-in-law, Brian Thornton for the 1966 season. The recipient was then the player who had scored the fastest
EnglandTest century in terms of balls faced, at home or away, in the calendar year. The 1970 award was made to
Geoffrey Boycott for "the most meritorious innings of the England v The
Rest of the World series", but in 1971 the original version of the award was restored. Since 1985, the trophy has been decided in terms of balls faced rather than minutes spent at the
crease. (Full article...)
AB de Villiers is a former South African
cricketer who captained the
national team between 2012 and 2017. A right-handed batsman, he scored 47
centuries (100 or more
runs in a single
innings)—22 in
Tests and 25 in
ODIs—over his playing career. He reached the top of the
ICC Test batting rankings in March 2012.
De Villiers made his Test debut in December 2004 against
England, scoring 28 and 15. He made his first Test century the following month, scoring 109 in the
drawn fifth Test at
Centurion. His first double-century came in April 2008 against
India when he scored 217
not out in a
man-of-the-match performance in
Ahmedabad. He has scored 22 Test centuries and holds the record for the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman, with 278
not out against
Pakistan. De Villiers has the fourth-highest number of centuries in Tests for South Africa. (Full article...)
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Former captain
Alastair Cook, pictured in 2016, holds several England Test cricket records. Test cricket is the oldest form of
cricket played at
international level. A Test match is scheduled to take place over a period of five days, and is played by teams representing
full member nations of the
International Cricket Council (ICC).
England was a founding member of the ICC, having played the
first Test match against
Australia in
March 1877 at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground. , they have played more Test matches than any other team, and of their 1071 games, have won 392, drawn 355 and lost 324. With 36.6 per cent of matches won, this makes England the third most successful team in the history of Test cricket, behind Australia on 47.8 per cent and
South Africa on 38.36 per cent.
Opening batsman and former
captainAlastair Cook holds several England Test cricket records. Playing between 2006 and 2018, he scored 12,472
runs, making him the first England player to
score 10,000 Test runs. He scored a record 57 half-centuries and 33
centuries. As a
slip fielder, Cook has also taken the most
catches for England with 175 and holds the England record for the most catches taken in a Test series with 13. Cook also holds the Test record for the most consecutive matches played with 159. (Full article...)
1971 - Controversial fast bowler
Ed Giddins is born.
1981 - England, having followed on 227 runs behind
Australia in the third
AshesTest at
Leeds, subside to 135 for seven wickets in their second innings in the early afternoon, still 92 behind. Then an eighth wicket stand of 117 between
Ian Botham and
Graham Dilley avoids the innings defeat and at close of play England are 351 for nine, with Botham still not out. The next day completes the story.
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Sri Lanka
2000 - Sanath Jayasuriya (pictured) scores 148 off 156 balls on the first day of a Test series against South Africa in
Galle.
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wicket consists of three
stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as the
bails. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 4 First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836 (from History of cricket)
Image 5In men's cricket the ball must weigh between 5.5 and 5.75 ounces (155.9 and 163 g) and measure between 8.81 and 9 in (22.4 and 22.9 cm) in circumference. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 6A Game of Cricket at The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park, depiction by unknown artist, c. 1790–1799 (from History of cricket)
Image 7New articles of the game of cricket, 25 February 1774 (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 8Broadhalfpenny Down, the location of the first First Class match in 1772 is still played on today (from History of cricket)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket, and produces team rankings for the various forms of cricket played internationally.
Test cricket is the longest form of cricket, played up to a maximum of five days with two
innings per side.
Matches is the number of matches played in the 12–24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that. See
points calculations for more details.
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